This section covers the rest of Otago and the start of Southland. Day 49: Wanaka to Highland Creek Hut 31km, +1300m -800m, 10.5 hours We said goodbye to our lovely cottage and dropped the keys off on ...Read More

This section covers the end of the Canterbury region and the start of the Otago region. Day 41: Twizel to Ohau 30km, +150m -100m, 7 hours We couldn’t get in to our lodge until 3pm and the fronta...Read More

This section covers Lake Sumner Conservation Park and the top of Arthur’s Pass National Park. Day 25: Boyle to Hope Kiwi Lodge 27km, +200m -200m, 7.5 hours Ali and Liv had managed to source a ta...Read More

This section covers the Nelson Lakes national park. Day 17: St Arnaud to Lakehead Hut 11km, <100m, 2.75 hours With only 11km on pretty flat ground to cover, I had a lie in at the hostel and l...Read More

This section covers the Richmond Ranges (and the Kaikoura interlude). I’ve added some rough ascent and descent to the distance and time (hut to hut times). I had a gloriously sunny couple of day...Read More

It begins! This section covers my faffing around in Wellington and the Queen Charlotte Track. Things that I arranged a few weeks before arriving in New Zealand: Hostel in Wellington Ferry to Picton H...Read More

In some end of 2016 festivities with the wonderful Broken Spoke Team Beryl folk, someone mentioned their intention to go on a ride in early January. This ride would be 200km long, in a triangle starti...Read More

A friend was getting married in Marlborough and I’d started looking at how to get there (remember, no car). Public transport would involve a laborious amount of buses and trains, and I thought I...Read More